Analysis

Escarpment-blocking skyscrapers not part of Wollongong CBD's future

Kate McIlwain
Updated December 1 2020 - 8:25pm, first published 4:00pm
Shadowland: Tall buildings will be phased out in areas and encouraged in others, to protect escarpment views and sunlight. Picture: Adam McLean.
Shadowland: Tall buildings will be phased out in areas and encouraged in others, to protect escarpment views and sunlight. Picture: Adam McLean.

Wollongong's CBD of the future will be significantly smaller - and so will many of the new buildings within it - as the council moves ahead with its most significant planning reforms in more than a decade.

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Kate McIlwain

Kate McIlwain

Journalist

For more than a decade, I've helped the Illawarra Mercury set the news agenda across the region. Currently I'm the paper's health reporter - covering the stories of Illawarra workers and residents in the wake of a global pandemic and at a time where our health systems are stretched to the limit.

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